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A collaborative, checklist-driven, multimodal protocol called the ComfortSafe anesthetic technique can provide effective postoperative pain relief and enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) while preventing complications associated with opioid analgesics. Getting anesthesiologists to adopt a less narcotic-heavy view of analgesia has become a crusade for one of the researchers who devised the protocol. “We’ve been using […]
Read MoreContinued use of beta-blockers for hypertension during noncardiac surgery can raise the risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and all-cause mortality within 30 days in a relatively low-risk population, suggests new research that is in line with earlier studies that generally included higher-risk patients. A Danish cohort of more than 55,000 low-risk hypertension patients […]
Read MoreAnesth Analg 2015 Dec;121(6):1640-54. Authors: Baeriswyl M et al BACKGROUND: Previous meta-analyses of the transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block have examined a maximum of 12 articles, including fewer than 650 participants, and have not examined the effect of ultrasound-guided techniques specifically. Recently, many trials that use ultrasound approaches to TAP block have been published, which report conflicting […]
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Read MoreAuthors: Timothy J Wigmore, MA, FRCA FFICM FCICM et al Anesthesiology 1 2016, Vol.124, 69-79. Background: Surgical resection remains the best option for long-term survival in many solid tumors. Surgery can, however, lead to tumor cell release into the circulation. Data have suggested differential effects of anesthetic agents on cancer cell growth. This retrospective analysis investigated the association […]
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